In computing, a windowing system (or window system) is a software suite that manages separately different parts of display screens. It is a type of graphical...
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windowing system. It is well known for making its window management transparent to the application. This allows running rio inside of another window manager...
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The X Window System (X11, or simply X) is a windowing system for bitmap displays, common on Unix-like operating systems. X originated as part of Project...
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The W Window System, or simply W, is a discontinued windowing system and precursor, in name and concept, to the modern X Window System. W was originally...
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In computing, Windows system may refer to: A Windows box, a computer running Microsoft Windows A windowing system, a type of software used to display...
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in 1982), the first windowing system using a tiled window manager. Next in 1983 came Andrew WM, a complete tiled windowing system later replaced by X11...
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Microsoft Windows is a product line of proprietary graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft. It is grouped into families and sub-families...
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Blit (computer terminal) (redirect from Mux (windowing system))
users would load the window systems mpx (or its successor mux), which replaced the terminal's user interface by a mouse-driven windowing interface, with multiple...
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Windows Vista is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft. It was the direct successor to Windows XP, released five years...
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Desktop environment (redirect from X window system desktop environment)
mind usually make use of a windowing toolkit, generally provided with the operating system or window manager. A windowing toolkit gives applications access...
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(multiple exposure) is a windowing system created by Silicon Graphics, used on 68k-based IRIS systems and early IRIS 4D systems. Mex was originally loaded...
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A window manager is system software that controls the placement and appearance of windows within a windowing system in a graphical user interface. Most...
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System Information (msinfo32.exe) is a system profiler included with Microsoft Windows that displays diagnostic and troubleshooting information related...
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Shell (computing) (redirect from Operating system shell)
typically build on top of a windowing system. In the case of X Window System or Wayland, the shell consists of an X window manager or a Wayland compositor...
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up windowing in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Windowing may refer to: Windowing system, a graphical user interface (GUI) which implements windows as...
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Windows 7 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft. It was released to manufacturing on July 22, 2009, and became...
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Widget toolkit (redirect from Windowing toolkit)
rendering engine. This engine can be specific to a certain operating system or windowing system or contain back-ends to interface with multiple ones and also...
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In computing, the X Window System (commonly: X11, or X) is a network-transparent windowing system for bitmap displays. This article details the protocols...
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Twin (acronym for "Textmode WINdow") is a windowing environment with mouse support, window manager, terminal emulator and networked clients, all inside...
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well-supported. (A standalone NeWS windowing system was also available for a time, but was never the primary SunOS windowing environment.) Starting with SunOS...
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have created their own windowing systems based on independent code, but with basic elements in common that define the WIMP "window, icon, menu and pointing...
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(GUI) using windows as one of its main "metaphors" is called a windowing system, whose main components are the display server and the window manager. The...
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Core OpenGL (section Windowing system interfaces)
to OpenGL, as well as WGL, which is the Microsoft Windows interface to OpenGL. All windowing system interfaces to OpenGL arose out of the migration of...
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manager Orbital windowing system – display and window manager, sets up the orbital: scheme, manages the display, and handles requests for window creation, redraws...
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Linux (redirect from Linux operating system)
Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise. Desktop Linux distributions include a windowing system such as X11 or Wayland and a desktop environment such as GNOME or KDE...
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Windows 10 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft. Microsoft described Windows 10 as an "operating system as a service"...
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NeWS (redirect from Network extensible Window System)
NeWS (Network extensible Window System) is a discontinued windowing system developed by Sun Microsystems in the mid-1980s. Originally known as "SunDew"...
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An X window manager is a window manager that runs on top of the X Window System, a windowing system mainly used on Unix-like systems. Unlike MacOS Classic...
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will not cause repainting problems. One of the first systems with a compositing windowing system was the Commodore Amiga, released in 1985. Applications...
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Graphical user interface (redirect from Window chrome)
pointing device. A window manager facilitates the interactions between windows, applications, and the windowing system. The windowing system handles hardware...
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